When the queen of Sheba heard about Solomon, ¹  she came to challenge ²  him with difficult questions. ³ 

But understand this, that in the last days difficult ¹  times will come.

“This commandment I am giving ¹  you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it too remote.

Get ready for a difficult task ¹  like a man; I will question you and you will inform me!

“Get ready for a difficult task ¹  like a man. I will question you and you will inform me!

How difficult it is for me to fathom your thoughts about me, O God! ¹  How vast is their sum total! ² 

“I am the Lord, the God of all humankind. There is, indeed, nothing too difficult for me. ¹ 

Then many of his disciples, when they heard these things, ¹  said, “This is a difficult ²  saying! ³  Who can understand it?” ⁴ 

They judged the people under normal circumstances; the difficult cases they would bring ¹  to Moses, but every small case they would judge themselves.

For you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible speech ¹  and difficult language, ²  but ³  to the house of Israel –

not to many peoples of unintelligible speech and difficult language, whose words you cannot understand ¹  – surely if ²  I had sent you to them, they would listen to you!

But the gate is narrow and the way is difficult that leads to life, and there are few who find it.

On this topic we have much to say ¹  and it is difficult to explain, since you have become sluggish ²  in hearing.

And,’ says the Lord who rules over all, ‘though such a thing may seem to be difficult in the opinion of the small community of those days, will it also appear difficult to me?’ asks the Lord who rules over all.

You should not consider it difficult to let him go free, for he will have served you for six years, twice ¹  the time of a hired worker; the Lord your God will bless you in everything you do.

If a matter is too difficult for you to judge – bloodshed, ¹  legal claim, ²  or assault ³  – matters of controversy in your villages ⁴  – you must leave there and go up to the place the Lord your God chooses. ⁵ 

Elijah ¹  replied, “That’s a difficult request! ²  If you see me taken from you, may it be so, but if you don’t, it will not happen.”

So remember ¹  your Creator in the days of your youth – before ²  the difficult ³  days come, and the years draw near when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;

What the king is asking is too difficult, and no one exists who can disclose it to the king, except for the gods – but they don’t live among mortals!” ¹ 

But Jesus ¹  replied, ²  “Woe to you experts in religious law as well! ³  You load people ⁴  down with burdens difficult to bear, yet you yourselves refuse to touch ⁵  the burdens with even one of your fingers!